Hi,

William Lupton <w...@cantab.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm sure there's an obvious reason for this, but could someone explain why
> these functions need a separate module-name argument rather than just using
> that module's prefix on the identity-name argument?

The only reason is that there are no existing functions that take a
prefixed string as an argument.  I think it would be possible to
change these functions to take just two arguments, but I am not sure
it is worth it?


/martin



> 
> For example, I saw derived-from(x, "ex-module", "foo") in a recent message
> but (assuming that "ex" is the prefix for "ex-module") will this always be
> the same as derived-from(x, "ex:foo")?
> 
> Thanks,
> William

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